Fact: You can sing most of Emily Dickinson's poems to the Gilligan's Island theme song. Go ahead. Try it:
Because I could not stop for Death --
He kindly stopped for me --
The Carriage held but just Ourselves --
And Immortality.
We slowly drove -- He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility --
We passed the School, where Children strove
At Recess -- in the Ring --
We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain --
We passed the Setting Sun --
Or rather -- He passed Us --
The Dews drew quivering and chill --
For only Gossamer, my Gown --
My Tippet -- only Tulle --
We paused before a House that seemed
A Swelling of the Ground --
The Roof was scarcely visible --
The Cornice -- in the Ground --
Since then -- 'tis Centuries -- and yet
Feels shorter than the Day
I first surmised the Horses' Heads
Were toward Eternity --
The weather started getting rough, the tiny ship was tossed--
Oh, sorry. We got carried away.
3 comments:
You can! You can!
I just heard about this...and now it's on literary makeovers!! I'm going to her house and strining up a coconut radio asap. I love the Ginger/Dickinson combo, too.
Did you know that Mary Ann just got busted for pot possession? True!
Hahahaha, thanks man. I have a degree in literature and this is the first time I've enjoyed Dickenson
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